Don’t Worry Darling: We Live At Canyon View Estates

Abstract

The picture-perfect homes of his filmed neighborhood are actually in Seaside, a famed master-planned community located in the Florida panhandle. Canyon View Estates is one of the developments that made Palm Springs, California famous for its mid-century modern architecture. Developed by Roy Fey, a Palm Springs real estate and tribal land-lease pioneer, Canyon View Estates was California's first vacation home community. Begun in 1962, it was constructed in six phases and completed in 1965 with about 160 homes. Real estate agent Eric Lavey of Sotheby's International Realty - Beverly Hills Brokerage bought one of the larger homes at Canyon View Estates ten years ago. "Today, a few of these houses serve as primary homes," Lavey says. "Many are second or third homes. Many serve as vacation homes for owners who have multi-million dollar primary homes elsewhere."This is a place where those kinds of differences don't matter.